Motives Quotes

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.